What is killing India's babies?

Babies are now dying of common ailments that could once be easily treated [101 East/Al Jazeera]

FAST FACTS: SUPERBUGS IN INDIA

In India, 58,000 babies die each year from superbugs.

Researchers have found that 60% to 80% of organisms that cause infections in newborns are resistant to normal antibiotics.

India is the single largest antibiotics-consuming country in the world.

At least one antibiotic-resistant bacteria first identified in India has now spread to more than 70 countries.

Sources: Al Jazeera, The Lancet and Frontline

Amravati, India - Anjali Thakur's first child was born prematurely. The baby spent seven days struggling to survive in an intensive care unit. Anjali prayed while her newborn was pumped with antibiotics. None of them worked.

"The doctors gave her various medicines but she didn't respond to any of them. She had a high fever and was given medicine, an oxygen mask and a drip," Thakur says from her home in Amravati, central India.

Thakur had wanted to call her daughter Arya, but she died before she could be named.

Her daughter was one of tens of thousands of newborns in India who succumb to common ailments that could once be easily treated.

'She did not respond to any antibiotic'

Researchers have found that at least one antibiotic-resistant bacteria first identified in India has now spread to more than 70 countries.

Some of the strongest antibiotics on the market are now proving ineffective, threatening to turn common diseases like urinary tract infections and pneumonia into untreatable ailments, undoing the medical progress of the last 50 years.